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H. SPLITDORR: ARMOR FOR HOOPS or HORSES.

Patented Oct. 8, 1867.

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HENRY SPLITDORF -0F BRIGHTON MASSAGE USETTS "Letters-Bitten No. 69,720, dated October 8, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT ABMOR FOB HOOPS' 0F HORSES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

-B e it known that I, HINRY SPLIT-boss, of Brighton, in thc county of Middlesex, and State oflMasss ehusetts,'h'ave invented a new and useful Improvement in Armor for the Feet and Hoofs of Horses and other animals and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skillediu'tho m to make and use the "same, reference being had to the accompanying-drawing. forming part of this specification, in which drswing- Figure 1: is an under si'de view of my improvement in connection with an under side view of a horse-shoe. Figure 2 is alongitudiuel vertical section taken through the armor andshoe. I The object of this invention is to protect the i'eetyot' horses and other burden-bearing animals, especially such as are shod, so as to' prevent the under side of their feet from being pierced or bruised or otherwise injurcd byobjects onthe ground, and toxic away with the exposure to which the under side of the feet or heels of such animals are subjected when wearing shoes of ordinaryfconstruction, that'is to say, shoes consistimr' of a rim fastened beneath the circumference or outer edge of the hoof. i Q I In order to illustrate my invention, I have shown it applieil in connection with a horse-shoe, A, of the ordinary construction. The srmcrconsists of a. series of steel or other metal plates, 0,- ovcrlapping each other, and united .so as to form a fle'xible sheet or surface by means of joints of suitable construction. I In this example I have connected them to form a plate by riveting them singly to a piece of leather, B, which is itself united to the upper side of the shoe by rivets D D, or in any other convenient way. The leather forms a foundation or support fer'the plates, and is made of such a size us to come to the outer edge of the shoe, whereby it becomes confined between the shoe and hoof or foot of the animal, as seen in fig. 2, where a horses foot is delinelteil in red outline, the nails that fasten the shoe to the hoof passing throughthmleather, Any flexible material of suitable strength can be used instead of leather, and the plates 0 may be of any suitable material, which has the required hardness, besidesdmetal. The plates 0 areplaced so as to overlap one another like scales or shingles, whereby I obtain at once a flexible or jointed armor, and an armor which presents everywhere a hard surface, composed of the surfaces of the'plates' G, the flexible foundation to which they are fastened not being exposed. The plates 0 are so. arranged one come within the'inner edges of the shoe A, so as to let theileathcr only come between the t'opsurfaee of the shoe and the horse's foot. The plates 0 area! course on the under side of the armor. When my invention is applied th the boots of oxen, the armor must be old! to conform to the character of the feet. 1

Whst I claim as 11",. desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp The armor G, for protectingthefeet or hoofs of horses or other animals, 'made substantially as described above, by fastening s seriesof plates to each other or m flexible foundation, B.'-

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Witnesses:

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Joann B. BBAIAI. 

